Is Shake Sphere Still in Business? (2026 Update)
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Look for Shake Sphere on AmazonFull story →Rick Beardsell, a competitive sprinter before he became a founder, pitched a protein shaker that swaps the standard wire whisk ball for a mixing sphere, entering series 15, episode 8 aimed squarely at the gym crowd he used to train alongside.
It has grown well past that original gym-bag market and is now selling on three continents.
Two Dragons, one product they both understood
Beardsell wanted £75,000 for 30% of the business, and Deborah Meaden and Tej Lalvani jointly funded the full amount. Meaden's grounding in consumer retail paired with Lalvani's day job running Vitabiotics, so between them the founder had someone who understood shelf space and someone who understood the supplement world the shaker actually lives in.
Having spent his own career as the exact customer this bottle was built for gave Beardsell an instinct for the product that a founder without that background would have had to guess at.
From one bottle to a genuinely global brand
ShakeSphere now runs three separate storefronts, one apiece for Britain, America and China, and has built partnerships with England Athletics, MYPROTEIN, PhD SMART Protein, Vitabiotics and Selfridges, with Target carrying the range stateside.
Cracking the Chinese market in particular is not something a British consumer brand does by simply translating a website, it requires building out an entirely separate retail and regulatory operation, which points to a company with real international infrastructure rather than a novelty riding out its television moment.
What 3 million units says about the mechanism
The brand puts its lifetime sales north of 3 million units, a number that would be difficult to reach in a category dominated by a handful of large, price-cutting rivals unless the sphere mechanism genuinely mixed better than the old whisk ball.
Sales run through the brand's own regional sites and its retail partners rather than Amazon, so anyone shopping for it should look at the UK, US or China storefronts directly.